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Ditko Essays

The recent announcement of Steve Ditko's new essays seems to have generated some attention, including some from people who weren't aware of Ditko's extensive history of such writings. Robin Snyder has helpfully provided the following list of those he's published (including both text and illustrated form) in his quarter century of publishing Ditko. I've added the location of the most recent printing of each entry (as Ditko often revised essays when they were reprinted, I recommend the most recent printing).
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SNYDER AND DITKO

mark 25 years of publishing

Here is a list of the many articles and essays by Ditko. Did we list them all? How many have you read?

“At Some Point” [AW]

“Creator’s Rights & Wrongs” [AW]

“Tools of the Trade” [AW]

“History Of The Mocker” [Mocker]

An Insider’s Piece of History: “Jack Kirby’s Spider-Man” [AW]

“ART!?” [AW]

“Identity, Identification” [AW]

“ART—the Panel” [AW]

“First Choice” [Charlton]

“Laszlo’s Hammer” [AW]

“The Sore Spot Cause and Crusade” [AW]

Tsk! Tsk!: “Whatever Happened to Common Sense?” [32Page]

Tsk! Tsk!: “Why Do Some People Seek the Unearned...” [32Page]

Tsk! Tsk!: “Comic Fans Keep Blowing Meaningless Sound Waves” [32Page]

Tsk! Tsk!: “Public ‘Debates’” [32Page]

Tsk! Tsk!: “The Fallacy of the Half and Half Men” [32Page]

Tsk! Tsk!: “The Unearned” [32Page]

Tsk! Tsk!: “Stolen Art Pages” [32Page]

Additional Tsk! Tsk! pages [32Page, see notes]

Tsk! Tsk!: “Has the Age of the Anti-Hero Become the Age of the Anti-Self?” [THE COMICS V11 #4 2000]

Most of those are readily available, see here as usual. Contact Robin Snyder for availability on specific back issues of THE COMICS or to subscribe, address at the same link.

Included on Snyder's list are two earlier essays published in fanzines, "Violence, The Phoney Issue" (GUTS #5 [1969]) and "Who Owns Original Art?" (INSIDE COMICS #2 [1974]). Both were revised and reprinted in AVENGING WORLD [2002].

The following essays were serialized in THE COMICS and not, as yet, collected elsewhere: